great depression

• Which sector of US society was hardest hit by the depression?

  farmers
• Due to the depression, What happened to farmers?

  they went bankrupt and couldn't pay their mortgages
• How did farmers try to resist banks taking back their homes?

  they barricaded highways to stop to authorities from reaching them
• What were farmers forced to do once they had lost their farms?

  they became migrants, picking up work where they could
• In the 1930's, the southern and mid west states experienced drought
• coupled with overarming, how did the drought affect the soil?

  the topsoil turned to dust
• What was the name given to the dust storms that occurred when the wind whipped up the dry top soil?

  dustbowl
• many of the people in the rural USA faced malnutrition
• What percentage of workers in the steel city of Cleveland were unemployed in 1932?

  50%
• Why were people in the cities forced out of their homes?

  they were evicted as they could not afford to pay the rent
• The homeless began to live in shanty towns. These were known as.....


  hoovervilles
• the homeless searched through rubbish bins in order to have a meal
• How many people in New York were admitted to hospital with malnutrition in 1931?

  238
• By 1932, may Americans began to question the Republican belief in laissez-faire and rugged individualism